Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] [be] thought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ease of reference , the various steps are numbered , but the divisions between the steps should never be thought of as hard and fast . |
| 2 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 3 | The classic oligopoly models can then be thought of as one-shot , non-co-operative games to which the NE concept can be applied to find a solution . |
| 4 | The process of development between Eqs ( 5.1 ) and ( 5.8 ) have transformed the Markowitz Tobin model , and the expected return of a security can now be thought of solely in terms of its relationship with the expected market rate of return . |
| 5 | An education may therefore be thought of as ‘ general ’ either in terms of types of knowledge or the culture to which it belongs . |
| 6 | A court might not be thought to be a particularly suitable body to make such a decision because , in many situations , the decision , whichever way it goes , will be politically highly contentious . |
| 7 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 8 | The need to strive for such aims can only be thought of as fundamental and humanitarian . |
| 9 | A rational player in a game can not be thought of as simply taking his rivals ' actions as given by some ad hoc assumption . |
| 10 | Oxford can not be thought of . |
| 11 | A standard method for searching any kind of database ( and a lexicon with various pieces of additional information can certainly be thought of as a database ) on a key other than the primary one ( the primary key for a lexicon is the word itself ) is by using inverted list structures ( Claybrook , 1983 ; Date , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 13 | Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms . |
| 14 | Plato can reasonably be thought of as the most radically and implacably anti-democratic of all political philosophers . |
| 15 | In Foucault 's work ‘ sexuality ’ is seen as an historical apparatus , and ‘ sex ’ is a ‘ complex idea that was formed within the deployment of sexuality ’ : 'Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of natural given which power tries to hold in check , or as an obscure domain which knowledge gradually tries to uncover . |
| 16 | But the general point is that vertical restraints should not be thought of , in social welfare terms , as intermediate between no linkage and complete integration . |
| 17 | Of course , only the district councils would normally be thought of as ‘ local government ’ . |
| 18 | What Irigaray describes as mimétisme can also be thought of as parody . |